SELINA HASTINGS is a writer and journalist, the author of four literary biographies. A lifelong Londoner, Selina was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Oxford University. Her first job was at Hatchard's bookshop, after which she worked for fourteen years on the Daily Telegraph and for eight years was literary editor of Harper's & Queen. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she reviews regularly and has been a judge of the Booker, Whitbread, British Academy, Ondaatje and Duff Cooper Prizes, and of the UK Biographers' Award. Selina has written biographies of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh (winner of the Marsh Biography Prize), Rosamond Lehmann and Somerset Maugham. She has also written a number of books for children, including a complete retelling of the Bible. In 2010 she won the Spear's Award For Outstanding Achievement for a body of work ?and in 2011 the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525244011 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525244018 |
| Title | Nancy Mitford |
| Author | Selina Hastings |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Dutton Books |
| Year published | 1986-07-23 |
| Number of pages | 274 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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